Greg Lansing
Gregory A. Lansing (born December 9, 1967) is a current scout for the Philadelphia 76ers and a former American college basketball coach. An assistant and head coach at the high school and college levels since 1990, he was most recently the head men's basketball coach at Indiana State University from 2010 to 2021, having twice previously been an assistant coach at Indiana State.
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 9, 1967 Mount Pleasant, Iowa, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1986–1990 | South Dakota |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1990–1992 | South Dakota (grad. asst.) |
| 1992–1993 | South Dakota (assistant) |
| 1993–1995 | Theodore Roosevelt HS |
| 1995–1999 | Indiana State (assistant) |
| 1999–2006 | Iowa (assistant) |
| 2006–2007 | Indiana State (assistant) |
| 2007–2010 | Indiana State (assoc. HC) |
| 2010–2021 | Indiana State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 181–164 (.525) |
| Tournaments |
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| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| MVC tournament (2011) | |
| Awards | |
| As player: NCC Defensive Player of the Year (1990) | |
Originally from Harlan, Iowa, Lansing played college basketball at South Dakota and was the North Central Conference Defensive Player of the Year as a senior in 1990. After two years as a graduate assistant there, Lansing was an assistant coach at South Dakota from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 1995, Lansing was head coach at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, where he led the boys' basketball program to its first winning seasons in over a decade. Lansing then returned to the college level as Indiana State assistant coach from 1995 to 1999 during a turnaround where Indiana State had a winning season for the first time in over 15 years. Then from 1999 to 2006, Lansing was an assistant coach at the University of Iowa, where he helped Iowa win the 2001 Big Ten tournament.
After his second stint as an assistant coach at Indiana State from 2006 to 2010, Lansing became head coach at Indiana State. Lansing led Indiana State to a Missouri Valley Conference tournament title in his debut season and subsequently took Indiana State to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational and the National Invitation Tournaments of 2013 and 2014. Those were the only postseason appearances in his time as head coach, and Indiana State declined to renew his contract following the 2020–21 season. With a 181–164 cumulative record in 11 seasons, Lansing has the second most wins among Indiana State head coaches.